modernism

Noun

Meaning

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

modernity contemporaneity modernness contemporaneousness dada art introduction shift variation departure innovation deviation modernization advancement novelty
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Antonyms

futurism old extinction realism antiquity naturalism
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Hypernyms

practice pattern genre currency currentness up-to-dateness

Phrases with the word

literary modernism the age of modernism

Examples

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. Miguel Syjuco

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. Clement Greenberg

A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. Italo Svevo

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. Roger Scruton

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. Will Self

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. Arthur Erickson

Close letter words and terms

modernised moderniser modernish modernist modernist art modernist cuisine